Report to your majesty, the prince is courting death again

Emperor Yuan Kang's face twitched, and he glared at Xu An fiercely.

I let you run wild, and now you've gone too far, right?

What do you want me to do now? Kill you?

Xiao Yuanlang was also frightened. The crowd's attitude clearly showed that they would not stop until Xu An was killed!

Once these charges were proven, even if his father was Xu Xiao, he would still be dead.

"Father..."

He quickly stood up and wanted to take all the blame.

He was the crown prince, and at most he would lose the crown prince position.

He felt it was worth it to exchange the crown prince position for Xu An's life.

"Go, what's your business!"

But as soon as he said this, he was glared at by Xu An and interrupted.

The current situation was deliberately created by him.

It was not easy to get the emotions and momentum in place, how could Xiao Yuanlang disrupt it?

He raised his hand and pointed at the whole audience, saying domineeringly: "What? Can't you afford to play? You can report me randomly, but I can't scare you?"

Emperor Yuan Kang had originally planned to intervene forcefully to save Xu An.

How could I let you easily break such a useful seedling?

But now, after hearing Xu An's words, he sat back again.

Well, seeing how confident this little bastard is, let's see how he wants to solve it.

And, this makes sense!

Why can you report him, but not scare you?

Lou Jinglong stared at Xu An coldly, and said in a cold voice: "Reporting randomly? Is it true that Young Master Xu enslaved refugees? As officials of Daqian and ministers of His Majesty, how can we allow you to harm my Daqian people like this?"

Tsk tsk, your uncle!

At this time, he still speaks so righteously, shameless!

Xu An snorted coldly and said, "A bunch of short-sighted scum dare to be righteous in front of this young master?"

"I enslave the people of Daqian? Idiot, can't you see that this young master is experimenting with a new disaster relief strategy?"

Emperor Yuankang narrowed his eyes. A new disaster relief strategy?

How come I don't know?

Lou Jinglong glanced at Xu An coldly, his eyes full of disdain.

A new disaster relief strategy?

You, a prodigal who only knows how to eat, drink and have fun, also know how to provide disaster relief?

How ridiculous!

He stared at Xu An and said coldly: "New disaster relief strategy? Is Master Xu's disaster relief strategy to throw money at it?"

"If you do this, where is the dignity of the court and your majesty?"

"Does it mean that I will have to spend countless money to make up for the disaster relief in the future?"

After saying that, Lou Jinglong looked at Emperor Yuankang and bowed his hands and said: "Your Majesty, at this point, this guy is still talking nonsense and trying to exonerate himself."

"I beg your majesty to issue an order to severely punish him to reassure the officials and the people of the world."

Emperor Yuankang has become interested. Compared with these ministers, he believes in Xu An more.

He smiled and said: "Lou Aiqing is right, but I want to hear what this new disaster relief method is?"

"Xu An, tell me, if you can't convince me, I will not forgive you."

Forgive me?

You old man have been scheming against me everywhere. When have you ever let me off?

Isn't this the situation you want to see?

Xu An secretly complained, then bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the disaster relief strategy I mentioned is... called work-for-relief."

"Work-for-relief? Oh, what a good work-for-relief!"

Lou Jinglong sneered and mocked, "Young Master Xu is really amazing! In order to enslave the people with peace of mind, he even gave it a nice name!"

When everyone heard this, they all laughed.

Work-for-relief?

Haha, isn't it just enslaving the people with peace of mind, but with a different name?

Xiao Yuanxuan's face was full of teasing, and Xiao Yuanlang's face was also a little confused at this time.

Only Du Ruhua frowned and fell into deep thought.

"Damn, is this how you understand work-for-relief?"

Xu An was a little speechless. You are all ministers in the court. Is your understanding of work-for-relief so one-sided?

No wonder Daqian is declining.

With officials like you, it is a miracle that Daqian can survive until now.

Emperor Yuan Kang's eyes have lit up. People like Lou Jinglong and Zhang Anshi, who want to kill Xu An, have long been blinded by anger.

But he is different.

He is used to considering problems from all angles!

Work-for-relief, if Xu An does it, it will be suspected of enslaving the people, but...what if he does it?

Although he has a general idea, he still needs Xu An to explain it in detail.

He coughed dryly and said, "Xu An, tell me what work-for-relief is."

Instantly, everyone's eyes fell on Xu An.

Xu An organized his words and said, "Your Majesty, in the past, the court provided disaster relief directly.The grain money will be distributed to the disaster victims by the counties. "

"But there are great hidden dangers in doing so."

"Because the relief grain money may be intercepted by corrupt officials, and what finally falls into the hands of the disaster victims is just a little bit exposed between their fingernails."

"The disaster victims may not know how much relief grain money there is, and think that the court has only distributed so much and does not care about their lives at all!"

"To put it another way, even if there are no corrupt officials, it is not a good idea to distribute relief grain to allow the disaster victims to eat enough every day."

"If you can eat without working, and these refugees have developed the habit of getting something for nothing, even if they survive the disaster, these refugees will become picky. What should we do then? Keep distributing grain to feed them?"

"Is my Daqian treasury full enough to support tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of idle people?"

"The people are the foundation of the country, but the court must never support idle people! "

Hearing this, Emperor Yuan Kang's face darkened slightly.

Be more confident, eliminate the possibility, that's it.

And Lou Jinglong's face finally changed. Xu An actually saw the previous disaster relief so clearly, so the new disaster relief strategy he mentioned... is very likely to be true.

"And my work-for-relief can largely eliminate these problems."

Xu An continued: "The court provides jobs, recruits disaster victims, and allows them to exchange silver money through labor, and then use the silver money to buy food and support themselves through labor. This is the best policy!"

"For example, for the flood in Jiangnan, do we need to build dams? Do we need workers to build dams?"

"Such work-for-relief may cost more money, but the court is not wasting money!"

"The final result is that the court spends money to strengthen the dam, which can prevent the next flood."

"The refugees have money to eat. If they want to eat well and be full, they should work more to earn money! ”

“Kill two birds with one stone!”

“As for providing jobs, building dikes, opening roads, building walls, and opening canals, which of these projects that benefit the country and the people does not need people to do it?”

“This is called infrastructure! The court spends money on infrastructure, which is beneficial to the present and the future!”

“And in this way, the accounts are easy to calculate. If there are still people who dare to use the disaster relief funds, just investigate the number of employees and secretly investigate the wages of refugees. With simple calculations, those corrupt officials will have nowhere to hide!”

“Your Majesty, what the people of the world want is nothing more than to have enough food and clothing and a stable life! It is better to teach people how to fish than to give them fish. It is better to give people porridge than to give them porridge! As long as the people have a decent life, my Daqian will not be in chaos. Only when the people are at ease, my Daqian can be stable and long-term!”

“Therefore, this work-for-relief is the best solution to the problem of refugees in disaster years! ! ”

“…”

After listening to Xu An’s explanation, the faces of the ministers who originally wanted to laugh at him froze.

Work-for-relief? It’s actually used like this?

It’s not about enslaving the people, but giving them jobs?

They are not fools. Now that Xu An has explained it, they naturally know the weight of the four words “work-for-relief”.

This is indeed a new disaster relief strategy.

And it is a disaster relief strategy that benefits the country and the people.

Damn it, this… How can they make money in the future?

Lou Jinglong, Zhang Anshi and others were also stunned and full of disbelief at this time.

How is this possible?

This prodigal son actually came up with a new disaster relief strategy?

He has been playing tricks on us from the beginning?!